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The bicycle. When everything else has let you down, you’ve still got your legs and two wheels.

What’s your favorite book?

“The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson

What’s your favorite expression?

I like to say that things are ‘squared away’ a lot, thanks to a bit of time spent in the Navy. It’s a good catchall term for things being done correctly. Also, I grew up in Louisiana for a while, so occasional “y’alls” and “ain’ts” are mixed in with the “wickeds.”

Education:
MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Master of Engineering Management in Design, Northwestern University
BSc in Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Standard models of ownership―well-designed schemes for shared access to resources can create significantly more value for less.

What’s your favorite invention of all time and why?

Natural languages—without which our wealth of collective knowledge would be immeasurably lesser… Being able to answer (and have been asked) this question is also nice, I guess.

What’s your favorite book?

Gun, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond—a fascinating root-cause explanation for the long-term, historical dominance of Eurasian civilizations. Other great reads by Jared Diamond: Collapse and The World Until Yesterday.

If you could redesign anything, what would it be?
Almost every day I curse my phone. I call it a ‘dumbphone’. I would love to have Continuum redesign the whole idea of a smartphone. Neither Apple or Android delight me very often.

What’s your favorite invention of all time and why?
The MP3. I hate owning ‘stuff’ and lugging it around, and the ability to store crates of CDs on a hard drive allows me to not own that much more ‘stuff’.

What’s your favorite book?
Hard to pick, but let’s go with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Intelligent computers and insurrection.

Elizabeth Kneen

Mechanical Engineer

Education:

BS Mechanical Engineering, Olin College of Engineering
MS Management with a concentration in Technological Entrepreneurship, Babson College

Past Positions:

Internships (recent to past) with Management Engineers (Germany), General Electric Transportation, American Axle and Manufacturing, National Association of Manufacturing. Internship with International Development Enterprises.